as violence in gaza wears on, the israeli government pushes back against the faa's decision to ground u.s. flights to tel aviv's airport. a national day of mourning in the netherlands as investigators try to determine how malaysia airlines flight 17 was brought down. some of the victims' remains make their way back from ukraine. false flags. a mystery in new york city as someone replaces the stars and stripes on top of the brooklyn bridge with white flags. ♪ happy birthday to you and starting with a song. a delivery room doctor's welcome for each baby he helps bring into the world. ♪ i hear babies cry, i watch

them grow ♪ >> this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, july 23rd, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. the faa says it will decide later today whether to continue a ban on flights to tel aviv. the israeli government says airlines that canceled flights to israel overreacted and handed a victory to terrorists. a hamas rocket fired from gaza landed near ben gurion airport yesterday. u.s. and other airlines quickly stopped flights to tel aviv. that was followed by a mandatory ban by the faa and the european aviation safety agency. the airport is open this morning. israeli officials insisting it's safe and want the ban lifted. former new york city mayor michael bloomberg flew to tel aviv on the israeli airline el

al last night in a show of support. bloomberg urged the faa to permit u.s. airlines to fly to israel. now, overnight, huge explosions lit up the gaza strip sky as the israeli assault continued. palestinian militants have fired more than 2,000 rockets at israel. alphonso van marsh reports on the flight ban into tel aviv. >> reporter: it was this hamas rocket strike on a tel aviv neighborhood that forced the faa to ban u.s. flights to ben gurion airport. the faa warned airlines of a "potentially hazardous situation created by the armed conflict in israel and gaza." us airways quickly canceled its flight from philadelphia and united scrubbed two flights out of newark. delta says its own daily flight from new york to tel aviv was already in the air when the decision was made. the flight was diverted to paris with 290 people on board. the rocket destroyed at least four homes. shrapnel landed in a baby's crib, but no one was seriously hurt. the family fled minutes before

the blast. >> it's really a miracle that the baby was not there. >> reporter: israel responded with explosions of its own. palestinians say an air strike destroyed this mosque in gaza, but it's civilians who have been hit the hardest. they account for almost all of gaza's more than 625 dead and 3,700 wounded. secretary of state john kerry and u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon continue to press for a cease-fire. >> hamas has a fundamental choice to make, and it is a choice that will have a profound impact for the people of gaza. >> reporter: gaza's prime minister says after 47 years of israeli occupation, that's not an option for its people, either. >> alphonso van marsh is in jerusalem this morning where the funeral for an american killed in gaza fighting for the israeli army is today. alphonso, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. i just want to share with you

new information we're getting, and that is that united states secretary of state john kerry has arrived in tel aviv, despite the faa ban, to try to push arab and israeli leaders to some sort of cease-fire or end to this conflict, and that comes, as you mentioned, as the funeral for an american who's been killed in this conflict has taken place. you can see here, this is the funeral for max steinberg. he was a 24-year-old originally from woodland hills, california. he volunteered for the israeli defense forces, and he was killed on sunday in gaza when a hamas antitank missile hit the armored personnel carrier he was in, killing him and six other israeli service members. now, he was called a lone member -- we should say a lone soldier. that means he had no family here in israel. and what's so interesting, anne-marie, is that there has been a facebook appeal for people to come to this funeral today, which is starting right now. you can see people by the thousands have come to pay their respects to the service member. he is 1 of 29 israeli service members killed in this conflict.

and of course, palestinians are also mourning today. there have been more than 625 palestinians killed in this current conflict, many of them civilians. anne-marie? >> all right. alphonso van marsh in jerusalem. thank you. as the investigation of malaysia airlines flight 17 continues, it promises to be a somber day across europe. today is a national day of mourning in the netherlands, where a majority of the 298 victims are from. most of the victims' bodies will arrive there later today. this morning in ukraine, a solemn ceremony as the remains are being loaded on to military cargo planes. they'll be met by grieving families and the dutch king and queen at an air base in the netherlands. and while u.s. intelligence officials have no smoking gun linking russia to the attack, they say russia was responsible for creating the conditions that led to the jet being shot down. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie, good morning.

u.s. intelligence officials still believe russia supplied the missile the rebels used to shoot down the plane. they are still trying to determine how much culpability russia has in this tragedy as they do their work today. the people of the netherlands await the arrival of hundreds of the victims. the remains of some of the victims of malaysia airlines flight 17 will be flown from this airport in ukraine to the netherlands this morning. once there, experts will start identifying those who lost their lives when the boeing 777 was shot down over eastern ukraine last week. a train carrying most of the corpses arrived tuesday in a government-controlled part of ukraine, but the remains of as many as 100 of the 298 victims were not among them. >> what we are sure of are 200. there are more remains. the investigation will point out which remains will fit to which person. >> reporter: investigators think the rest of the human remains are still at the crash site and that some of the wreckage was moved and some tampered with.

>> we did observe changes in the site, especially the burnt area where the wings and the fuel tanks went down. the fuselage has been moved. >> reporter: senior u.s. intelligence officials say they believe russian-backed separatists hit the passenger plane with a surface-to-air missile. they say the rocket launcher likely came from a base in southwestern russia. intelligence officials admit they have no evidence russia was directly involved but say moscow created the conditions that led to the plane being brought down. we've just learned the black boxes have arrived in britain. investigators there will start looking through that looking for information and evidence. also, the australian prime minister said today it is still unclear, anne-marie, how many of the bodies arrived in kharkiv, ukraine, and how many of them are still at the crash site. >> susan mcginnis in washington. thank you, susan. the "costa concordia" is making its final voyage.

this morning, the wrecked italian cruise ship is slowly being towed to genoa, where it will be scrapped. the "concordia" struck a reef off the italian coast in 2012 and capsized. 32 people were killed. the ship was refloated nine days ago in the largest maritime salvage operation ever. and firefighters in washington are making progress fighting the largest wildfire in state history. the carlton complex fire is now 16% contained, but it's burned nearly 400 square miles and destroyed 150 homes. and now, homeowners have something else to worry about, looters. >> the place was being overrun with people. they would stop and go down there and start looking for things. you don't even get a chance to go through what's salvageable. they're trying to find it first. >> in neighboring oregon, 11 major fires are burning this morning. coming up on the "morning news," a bridge mystery.

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life that i want to live. police in new york this morning are investigating a mystery at the brooklyn bridge. despite security monitoring, someone got to the top of the bridge and replaced two american flags. jessica schneider of our new york station wcbs reports on the search for those responsible. >> reporter: a strange sight tuesday morning, the american flag soaring above the brooklyn bridge gone, replaced by white-washed flags. >> i think it's very scary, because i walk the bridge every day and i think there's a lot of issues, securitywise. >> reporter: it happened despite two police cars parked on either end of the bridge and dozens of cameras monitored by the nypd. >> we're going to look at the camera coverage from both sides of the bridge, from approaches to the bridge, to determine what number of people are we looking at, what are they carrying.

>> reporter: at 3:10 a.m., video obtained by police shows at least four or five people crossing the bridge on foot. around 3:30 a.m., this video captured by earthcam shows the lights illuminating the american flags go dark. police say the culprits covered the lights with these aluminum covers and then made the switch. it wasn't until 5:30 a.m. that construction workers noticed the white-washed flags. by 11:00 a.m., members of the emergency services unit took those flags down. the brooklyn bridge is supposed to be one of the safest structures in the city. the nypd beefed up security at bridges after this flash dance party on the manhattan bridge last august. just weeks before that, a wanna be spider-man climbed the brooklyn bridge. and in march, a local artist scaled the queensboro bridge to display his work. no one has taken responsibility for tuesday's stunt. >> no matter what the motive was, that is a matter of concern. i am not particularly happy about the event. >> reporter: that tower is

guarded by a locked gate, so whoever did this knew how to get inside. police say a number of people had access to this area in recent weeks, including construction workers and even people who worked on the fourth of july fireworks. right now, police are combing social media for any clues, and they promise that the person or people responsible will be prosecuted. for cbs news, jessica schneider at the brooklyn bridge. still to come, is apple preparing to get into the smartwatch business? and first it was alex rodriguez and ryan braun. now it's the queen of england. the performance-enhancing drugs scandal linked to the british monarch. >> announcer: this portion of "cbs morning news" sponsored by move free ultra. just one tiny pill a day for more comfortable joint movement.

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here's a look at today's here's a look at today's forecast in cities around the country. on the "cbs money watch," a new recall involving ignition switches, and apple's smartwatch comes together. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, jill. >> good morning, anne-marie. chrysler is recalling up to 750,000 older jeep models. as many as 790,000 2005-2007

grand cherokees and 2006-2007 commanders are covered by the recall. the problem is ignition switches that could cause engine stalling if the driver's knee knocks them out of the run position. well, two opposing court opinions on obamacare in washington, d.c. a federal appeals court ruled the federal government cannot help consumers pay for insurance in 36 states that use the federal exchange. but in richmond, virginia, another appeals court said just the opposite. insurance subsidies will continue as the cases are appealed to higher court. here on wall street, investors will be watching corporate earnings reports from boeing and pepsico ahead of the opening bell. the dow rose 61 points yesterday, the nasdaq advanced 31, and the s&p gained 9. growth prospects for apple are brighter this morning. the company reported higher earnings as it sold more than 35 million iphones. apple earned $7.7 billion in the third quarter.

fewer ipads were sold, but possibly two new iphones are expected in the future. and apple has won approval for a new smartwatch. the company submitted a patent for a new mobile electronic device complete with diagrams for what apple plans to call itime. it's expected to be launched in october. other smartwatches have been introduced by samsung and lg using google's android wear technology. anne-marie? >> all right, jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. thanks a lot, jill. donald sterling takes another step in his fight to keep control of the los angeles clippers. on tuesday night, he filed a new lawsuit, claiming his wife, shelly, and nba commissioner adam silver, engaged in fraud while trying to complete the sale of the team to steve ballmer. meanwhile, the uncertainty of the clippers ownership may cost the team its coach. the interim ceo testified in a separate trial that doc rivers said he will leave the team if sterling remains as owner.

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good morning. it's wednesday, july 23rd i'm michelle griego. ,,,, here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. the first thing that many babies born at a pittsburgh

hospital hear is a song, and it is sung by the doctor in the delivery room. david highfield of our pittsburgh affiliate kdka reports. >> you made my day. you made your mommy's day, your daddy's too. >> reporter: dr. carey andrew-jaja believes every baby he delivers at magee-women's hospital deserves a celebration. ♪ happy birthday to you >> reporter: so, he welcomes them into the world with music, and everyone working in the delivery room joins in, even the reluctant ones. ♪ happy birthday to you >> yay! >> i just say it's a requirement now that everybody sing, and people say i can't sing, it doesn't matter, you know. we all join in together. >> reporter: sometimes, though, he sings solo. ♪ i hear babies cry, i watch them grow ♪

>> reporter: it started during his residency when he worked with another doctor who sang to babies. >> and when he was about to retire, he told me to continue this tradition. he handed the baton to me. >> reporter: decades later now, he's sung to about 8,000 newborns. >> i have been doing it every time i deliver. they don't let me leave the room unless i sing, so. >> reporter: and we couldn't let him go without asking for a song, either. ♪ nothing's gonna harm you, not while i'm around ♪ >> reporter: he says each baby is special. the miracle of life continues to amaze him. he saves this song for when a mom or a baby has had a tough time. ♪ but in time, no one's gonna harm you, no one's gonna harm you, not while we're around ♪ >> reporter: very nice. >> yeah. >> that was kdka's david highfield reporting. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." s."

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a big apple debut to remember for chase headley. on tuesday afternoon, he was traded from san diego to the new york yankees. he wasn't even in the dugout until the second inning of new york's game against the rangers, but in the 14th inning, headley delivers a walk-off single to give the yankees a 2-1 win, something to give new yorkers something to smile about. speaking of that, a new survey ranks the happiest cities in america based on their satisfaction with life. for cities with over 1 million residents, richmond, virginia, was number one, followed by norfolk-virginia beach in the same state. washington, d.c., was third. raleigh-durham, north carolina, and atlanta, georgia, round out the top five happiest cities. in last place, new york city was

rated the most unhappy metropolis. and maine, the state that bills itself as vacation land, is reeling in tourists this year. as chip reid tells us, they are coming from the other side of the world. [ honking ] >> reporter: in bar harbor, maine, customers on captain john nikolai's lobster tours are all but eating out of his hands. >> smell. >> reporter: nikolai's clientele recently has been undergoing a seed change. what percentage of the people on this boat are from china? >> more and more. i used to hardly get any, and now i can say probably between 15% and 20%. >> reporter: on average, that's 150 chinese tourists a week. one big reason, last month, the first daily direct flights began from beijing to boston. most boston visitors take side trips, and maine is just up the coast. over the next five years, the number of chinese visitors to the u.s. is expected to more than double from 1.8 million to 4.3 million.

and the average chinese tourist spends over $7,000 a trip, more than any other nationality. so, nikolai is not alone in rolling out the red carpet. restaurants have menus in chinese, and local businesses have even formed a marketing group to try to attract more asian tourists. >> he's right. [ laughter ] >> reporter: nikolai's guests appreciate that he's taking the trouble to learn their language. >> how do you say male in mandarin? >> gunda. >> how do you say lobster? >> longsha, means dragon shrimp. >> reporter: how's he doing? how's his mandarin? >> it's good. >> very good, what are you talking about? i love to take them out because they're so interested in what we do here, and i think they bring

the message back home. >> reporter: back home to china, where word is spreading about the big welcome awaiting them almost 7,000 miles away. >> guys, take care. >> you, too. >> bye-bye. >> reporter: chip reid, cbs news, bar harbor, maine. well, coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," we'll be live from tel aviv on the flight suspensions and get reaction from the white house. and we'll take you to a marine anti-terror training operation called "disaster disneyland." that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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>> it is nearly 4:30 on your wednesday. and lawrence is nce here o again, aren't you? >> it doesn't feel like 4:30. it feels a lot earlier today. i don't know why! [ laughter ] >> no sleep. >> hey, guys. you know, yesterday we had those thunderstorms at this time. today kind of a quiet start to the day but we have warm temperatures. going to get hot in the next few days. we'll talk about that coming up. >> and unfortunately we have some emergency road repairs going on in livermore and it's westbound 580 from north greenville to vasco. they have two of the lanes blocked to do some emergency pg&e repairs to a power pole. so just a heads up. initially they said the lanes would be blocked until 8 a.m. now they are trying to effort 5:30 or 6:00. it's a busy area and could cause major delays later on. >> all right. thank you, elizabeth. they don't carry guns or badges but the water cops will soon be on patrol in the south bay. kpix 5's betty yu reports the water district will have people ready to respond to complaints about water being wasted. reporter: in